Chapter Ten
I have reached the point in this memoir where I need to bring about some sort of closure, partly because every story needs a beginning, a middle and an end, and partly for my own reasons. I need, as far as I am able, to make sense of what happened with Beth. It’s all over now, and yet, at the same time, there is resonance. I am not quite the same person I was before Beth came into my life.
After Beth’s visit to New Orleans, things changed. Matthew seemed to resent her need for other people, especially other men, and at the same time Beth began to challenge him more. She’s the kind of person who can never let anything be. Any supposed slight, any failing on someone else’s part, any lessening of the level of attention she felt was her due, would be argued over, constantly, endl
